Developers that crave low-income housing might have a real opportunity in front of them in Chicago, where a city amendment is being floated that would require developers to set aside more of their work for low-income housing projects. …

We have long chronicled stories at Renewal and Redevelopment about urban gentrification cases of the most visceral kind: Those cases where residents are displaced, banished to start anew in places they do not and have never called home. …

CDC, the St. Louis-based firm specializing in brownfield redevelopment that purchased the Marysville Power Plant last May, is now considering imploding the plant, a demolition strategy it had previously considered unlikely. …

Communities throughout the Mountain State trying to eradicate abandoned, vacant and dilapidated buildings may apply for technical assistance awards through the Northern West Virginia Brownfields Assistance Center at West Virginia University. …

The Urban Land Institute over the past year and a half has explored the connection between land use and health, specifically the role that design and development play in creating communities that are conducive to active, healthy living. …

James Byrne, environmental scientist who oversees the brownfields team for U.S. EPA Region I (New England), knows that while all brownfields should be created “equal,” others harbor a perception that certain redevelopments are a little more “equal” than others. …

The Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) is accepting applications for a new round of grant funding of up to $7.5 million that will be awarded to help remediate and redevelop brownfield sites throughout the state. …

The Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) has announced that the Michigan Strategic Fund has approved two community revitalization projects in downtown Marquette, including a new hospital that will be constructed in the heart of downtown.
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A new report by a statewide environmental group calls Erie County one of the few “pockets of success” for the state’s Brownfield Cleanup Program, even as it criticized the overall program as a “broken system” that has left taxpayers footing the bill” for projects in wealthier markets that would get done, anyway.
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Professional infrastructure and environmental services consultancy Cardno has organized a unique collaboration of federal, state, city, and nonprofit organizations called the Arizona Healthfields Initiative, one of only a few similar efforts anywhere in the U.S and a first-of-its-kind program in Arizona. …

The Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) has announced that the Michigan Strategic Fund has approved two community revitalization projects in downtown Marquette, including a new hospital that will be constructed in the heart of downtown.

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With nearly 30 years of professional consulting experience, Miles Bolton leads Apex in tackling some of the toughest brownfield redevelopment and engineering projects in the nation. Safety, innovation, efficiency and customer satisfaction are the words that describe Bolton’s project focus, and what drives Apex to provide clients with the highest quality services in the most cost-effective manner.

Michael Bloomberg’s exodus as New York mayor at the start of this year has caused several ripple effect. The Brownfield 2013 Person of the Year Daniel Walsh was hired and Bloomberg, and is waiting to see how matters shake out with new mayor Daniel De Blasio.